Letter from the Chief,

Thank you for your decision to volunteer with the Windcrest Volunteer Fire Department. We have a long tradition of providing first rate emergency services to the City of Windcrest & our assigned Bexar County area. We are a very busy department- in 2009 we responded to 1,967 emergencies.

Our support from the City of Windcrest is outstanding. We enjoy state of the art Fire & EMS equipment. The latest two editions to our fleet is a 2007 Rosenbauer pumper with Compressed Air Foam Capabilities, & a 2010 Ford Explorer Rescue vehicle.

The city purchased two homes adjacent to the Fire Department & we have turned them into fire dorms. These Fire Dorms can accommodate a dozen or so volunteer firefighters. The firefighters that live in the dorm enjoy no cost living-the only thing they pay for is thier own food.

The City of Windcrest considers the Volunteers in the Fire Department to be employees of the city and treats them as such. The firefighters who are accepted into our program go through a rather extensive background check. I ask that you bear with us as we go through this process, but it is necessary for our safety as well as the public safety.

Please feel free to call me anytime to ask questions about the department or the process of acceptance.

Dan Reese
Chief, Windcrest Volunteer Fire Department
Office: 210-655-0022, ext 2180
210-599-6007